Bitcoin Power Plant Consumes So Much Power, and It's Heating Up a 12,000-Year-Old Glacial Lake

06 July 2021, 05:07 pm
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining, in general, have established negative stigma for their all-encompassing effects on the tech industry. Probably, they couldn't use even worse press than this.  
(Photo : FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
Alpine Mining co-founder and CEO Ludovic Thomas works at company's main cryptocurrency mining site jam-packed with metal racks lined with hundreds upon hundreds of graphic cards in the tiny southern Swiss village of Gondo on March 9, 2018.
According to a report by ArsTechnica, a certain former fossil fuel power plant-turned Bitcoin mining center is consuming so much power that it's heating up Seneca Lake in upstate New York. That's on top of polluting the surrounding atmosphere by constantly burning natural gas to power the cryptocurrency operation. 

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